“It is a good thing, it is even salutary, for a child to have periods of boredom, for him to learn to know the dialectics of exaggerated play and causeless, pure boredom.”
Gaston Bachelard, via Sunbeams (Page 117)
“For I believe a good king is from the outset and by necessity a philosopher, and the philosopher is from the outset a kingly person.”
Musonius Rufus, via The Daily Stoic (Page 206)
“On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind—I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I’m made for, the very things for which I was put into this world? Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It’s so pleasurable. Were you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 203)
“There are no true beginnings but in pain. When you understand that and can withstand pain, then you’re almost ready to start.”
Leslie Woolf Hedley, via Sunbeams (Page 117)
32 Krista Tippett Quotes from Becoming Wise For A Deeper, More Nourishing Life
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“Everything in life that’s hard, is just a series of things that are easy. You just have to take that first step.”
Steve Garguilo, TED Talk
“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”
Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 201)
“Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart.”
Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 266)
“I have seen that wisdom emerges precisely through those moments when we have to hold seemingly opposing realities in a creative tension and interplay: power and frailty, birth and death, pain and hope, beauty and brokenness, mystery and conviction, calm and buoyancy, mine and yours.”
Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 266)
“Our world is abundant with quiet, hidden lives of beauty and courage and goodness. There are millions of people at any given moment, young and old, giving themselves over to service, risking hope, and all the while ennobling us all. To take such goodness in and let it matter—to let it define our take on reality as much as headlines of violence—is a choice we can make to live by the light in the darkness.”
Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 265)